Saturday, July 25

Director steps down from lab

The man the University of California hired as director two years ago to reform the problem-ridden Los Alamos National Laboratory announced his resignation Friday during a critical time in the UC’s potential bid for the extension of its current management contract. Read more...


USAC runoff campaigns begin

Though some of the candidate signs lining Bruin Walk have been taken down, the elections are not yet over. Voting for runoff elections for the undergraduate student government will begin tonight as two top executive offices remain unfilled. Read more...


Students analyze theme park trends

When Joy Hogeley and Wenxuan Chen began their research last fall, studying the dynamics of the theme park industry in Southern California, theirs was an exercise born more out of necessity than innovation. Read more...


New stem cell agency chosen

San Francisco was selected to be the headquarters of a new government agency overseeing stem cell research on Friday, in a move that might boost the local economy. Read more...



USAC results stir up Kerckhoff clusters

Knowing very little about the Undergraduate Students Association Council, I decided that in order to learn quickly I should attend the ritualistic USAC election results gathering held in front of Kerckhoff Hall, which was last Thursday night. Read more...


An aerial look at evolving Merced

MERCED -“”mdash; Through the window of a 1956 taildragger airplane, longtime Merced County resident Hans Marsen points on Saturday to the site where the University of California’s newest campus will open this September. Read more...